Mayor Rob Ford

[bustaheims]

I can't believe impeachment is not in the legislation.

Neither can I, but, City Council has no power to remove the mayor from office and the Province can only do so if he's convicted of a criminal offence. The Feds can't do anything either - municipal politics are out of their jurisdiction. Unless they can get him on Conflict of Interest again and make it stick this time . . .

 

[maplesyrup]

He could have done some truly great work on this.

:'(

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFloKq0FP9o[/youtube]

 

[Champ Kind]

He could have done some truly great work on this.

:'(

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFloKq0FP9o[/youtube]

Just brilliant.

Boy, was Farley ever channeled when Ford is ranting in the living room

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

 

[mc]

if you believe in god, Farley is begging for one last chance to come and impersonate Ford on SNL. trust me. my guardian angel told me so.

 

[TML fan]

I hope he wins the next election.  ;D

 

[L K]

He was parodied on SNL as the opening sketch...I think?
Wow has that show ever gone downhill.

 

[maplesyrup]

I watched SNL on a hunch they'd do something on Ford and they didn't disappoint. I enjoyed it. Lady Gaga was surprisingly funny too. I'm curious LK. You believe SNL has gone downhill because they went after Ford or are you just stating what everyone knows in that they haven't had a brilliant lineup since the Ferrell days?

 

[L K]

Nice to see he managed to give his staff $5000 each right before council stripped him of his power.  Let the gravy roll on you slob.

As for SNL.  That skit, other than dressing someone up as "fat" and referencing cocaine was not remotely a parody of Ford.  It was a parody of Canada.  There wasn't even a slight attempt to actually portray anything remotely "Ford-like" in that sketch.  It was lazy and not funny.

You don't even need to have a talented cast to have someone write something better than the sketches they perform.  I think it goes far beyond the live cast because the scripts they get aren't good anymore either.

 

[maplesyrup]

I think I know what you mean. The "ehs" and "aboots" were indeed, lazy. It did bother me a little but hey, it was another jab at Ford and like I said, I enjoyed it. I just thought you might have been calling out SNL for WHO they were poking fun at opposed to HOW they did it.

 

[louisstamos]

Anyone following the council meeting today?  This tweet pretty accurately describes what went down:

Andrew Coyne ‏@acoyne 1m
This is like one of those hockey games where the players climb up into the seats?

 

[Zee]

It's pretty sad that this fiasco is making world news.  I wish he would just go away.

 

[Zee]

So this happened:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB1dJeMtb08[/youtube]

Councillor Paula Fletcher asked the mayor to apologize to Ms. McConnell, whose lip was swollen, she said. The mayor said he was trying to rush over to get to Councillor Ford, whom he thought was involved in an altercation.

?I apologize to anyone I accidentally hit when my brother was in an altercation over there,? said Mayor Ford.

 

[L K]

Didn't look at her once when it happened.  Didn't apologize to her after it happened.  What a fool.
Fitting that he has a show on SunTV now where noone can watch his buffoonery.

 

[bustaheims]

?I apologize to anyone I accidentally hit when my brother was in an altercation over there,? said Mayor Ford.

Which, I think, raises the question of what kind of altercation was Doug involved with, with whom and why? Considering the reports of him getting into less than intellectual verbal sparing matches with the public at today's council session, I can't imagine it's for the most honourable of reasons.

 

[Zee]

Didn't look at her once when it happened.  Didn't apologize to her after it happened.  What a fool.
Fitting that he has a show on SunTV now where noone can watch his buffoonery.

Watching that was pretty surreal.  I have seen political fights in other countries where elected officials go nuts in their chambers, but I always thought that sort of behavior was relegated to countries in political turmoil.  Never thought I'd see it right in Toronto.

 

[bustaheims]

https://twitter.com/reporterdonpeat/status/402524054642372608

"You're the scumbag! You're the scumbag!" Cllr Doug Ford also shouting at people in the public gallery #TOpoli

https://twitter.com/KaleighRogers/status/402524070291320832

"You're a disgrace! Let's get the real taxpayers down here!" Doug yells at a member of the public #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/WNTmrNXw4I

https://twitter.com/AustinCTV/status/402524722790821888

#MayorFord yelling and pointing at citizens at city hall.  "What union are you with" he yells. @CTVToronto pic.twitter.com/dBQWGV75Sc

The Fords seem like such a nice family . . .

 

[louisstamos]

https://twitter.com/reporterdonpeat/status/402524054642372608

"You're the scumbag! You're the scumbag!" Cllr Doug Ford also shouting at people in the public gallery #TOpoli

https://twitter.com/KaleighRogers/status/402524070291320832

"You're a disgrace! Let's get the real taxpayers down here!" Doug yells at a member of the public #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/WNTmrNXw4I

https://twitter.com/AustinCTV/status/402524722790821888

#MayorFord yelling and pointing at citizens at city hall.  "What union are you with" he yells. @CTVToronto pic.twitter.com/dBQWGV75Sc

The Fords seem like such a nice family . . .

http://www.scribblelive.com/Event/SinglePost.aspx?PostId=96798054&lang=undefined&ss=1
This is our mayor, guys!!!

 

[L K]

https://twitter.com/reporterdonpeat/status/402524054642372608

"You're the scumbag! You're the scumbag!" Cllr Doug Ford also shouting at people in the public gallery #TOpoli

https://twitter.com/KaleighRogers/status/402524070291320832

"You're a disgrace! Let's get the real taxpayers down here!" Doug yells at a member of the public #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/WNTmrNXw4I

https://twitter.com/AustinCTV/status/402524722790821888

#MayorFord yelling and pointing at citizens at city hall.  "What union are you with" he yells. @CTVToronto pic.twitter.com/dBQWGV75Sc

The Fords seem like such a nice family . . .

Yeah, well, those people who show up aren't really from Toronto.  They are probably from Left-wing-istan.  Real Torontonians support crack smoking liars who give their staff $5000 bonuses right before he loses the power to do so, and spends most of his working hours getting smashed on the public dime.

 

[bustaheims]

Yeah, well, those people who show up aren't really from Toronto.  They are probably from Left-wing-istan.  Real Torontonians support crack smoking liars who give their staff $5000 bonuses right before he loses the power to do so, and spends most of his working hours getting smashed on the public dime.

Yeah. I mean, I fully acknowledge that many of the more vocal members in the gallery today are probably not the most intelligent or well-spoken residents of the city, but, a smart politician knows better than to engage - and especially not with such grade school level comebacks.